Huron Company produces a commercial cleaning compound known as Zoom. The direct materials and direct labor standards for one unit of Zoom are given below: Direct materials Direct labor Hours Standard Quantity or Standard Price or Rate $ 2.50 per pound $ 18.00 per hour Standard Cost $ 11.50 $ 3.60 4.6 pounds 0.2 hours During the most recent month, the following activity was recorded: a. Twenty thousand pounds of material were purchased at a cost of $2.35 per pound. b. The company produced only 3,000 units, using 14,750 pounds of material. (The rest of the material purchased remained in raw materials inventory.) c. 750 hours of direct labor time were recorded at a total labor cost of $14,925. Required: Compute the materials price and quantity variances for the month. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.) Materials price variance Materials quantity variance

In layman's terms, variance analysis is an analysis of a difference between planned and actual behavior. Variance analysis is mainly used by the companies to maintain a control over a business. After analyzing differences, companies find the reasons for …

The standard cost system is the expected cost per unit product manufactured and it helps in estimating the deviations and controlling them as well as fixing the selling price of the product. For example, it helps to plan the cost for the coming year on t…